The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 8, 1928, Page 4

Page Four “YHE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 1928 THE DAILY WORKER Published by the NATIONAL DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING ASS’N, Inc. } Daily, Except Sunday | 83 First Street, New York, N. Y. Cable Address: SUBSCRIPTION RATES f By Mail (in New York or Mail (outside of New Yors)? §8.00 per year $4.50 six $3.50 six months $2.50 three months Phone, Orchard 1680 | “‘Daiwork 6.50 per year $2.00 three months. THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. Editor .. ROBERT MINOR Assistant Editor.... ...WM. F. DUNNE Address and mail out checks to | | eee 22 Sees ss» second-clasa mail aththe post-office at New York, N. ¥.. the actof March 3, 1879. Kneeling to Reaction Capitalist imperialism in its operations in the territory of a| weaker nation invariably recruits every force of reaction, every | anti-social force, every superstitious residue of the past that can be welded into an instrument of support for the conquest of its | intended subjects. As England, in the conquest of India, busily | fans to wihtite heat both sides of religious fanaticism and carefully allies herself with the autocratic feudal princes—just so the United States in the present stage is occupied with re-fastening the chains of, the past upon Mexico. Dwight W. Morrow, am- bassador of J. P. Morgan & Co. and of the United States to Mex- ico, is now forcing upon the Mexican nation the handcuffs of the Catholic hierarchy which that country has learned to hate and fear. The kneeling of Calles and Obregon before Morrow, the “cardinal” of the Wall Street vatican, has long been apparent. Now, at the command of Morrow, Calles and Obregon are kneeling before the smaller vatican of Rome. pressure from the Morgan partner in the United States embassy, Calles and Obregon sent an emissary to declare at a public festival that the Mexican revolution, which they say has been converted into their government, “is completely respectful of religious faiths. It is absolutely false that it pretends to uproot in the hearts of Mexicans the beliefs they haye had for so many centuries. It is completely false that it wishes to obliterate the religién we inherited from our ancestors, least of all that it pretends to efface the adoration for the Virgin of Guada- lupe, that divine image that nestles in the hearts of all good Mex- icans and inspires them with infinite eagerness for bettermentY” Only a few months ago the Mexican workers and peasants courageously crushed out in battle the bloody counter-revolution -of the semi-feudal landlords conceived and led by the church hier- archy. Now Calles and Obregon are busy selling these same'work- ers and peasants, through the broker Morrow, into the slavery to these same landlords and priests. The Washington government knows that every power of su- perstition and the assistance of every petty privileged tyrant will he needed in the next years to help in the conquest of Mexico, the destruction of its national independence and its complete enslave- ment. The Mexican workers and peasants must see through the honeyed “liberalism” of Calles and Obregon toward the landlord- and-priest reaction. Their “tolerance” for reaction goes hand in hand with an increasingly sharp depression of the conditions of the working class. The workers of Mexico must rally to support and to build up their revolutionary Communist Party of Mexico which alone can be trusted to guide the industrial and rural toilers in the long and sharp struggle to drive United States imperialism out of Mexico. And the workers of the United States must become the staunchest allies of the revolutionary forces of Mexico in doing | this. The Communist electoral campaign of 1928 in the United States has this as one of its object: Waiting for, “Inexpensive” | Seats for “Strange Interlude”: melodramatic that it produces a sen- By SCOTT NEARING. 2 aed a 33 : Ne, «_, |Sation much like.the roller coaster. | CENTLY 1 nite ne or hos [Many other plays in New York this| minutes at the John Golden’ tne winter have excelled in both dialogue tre, on 58th St., near Broadway, New } plot York City, to be told tha wanted é a “che seat for| The Strange Interlude is the period Eugene O’Neill’s/in life when sex passion no longer | Strange Interlude I |drives and before senility has actually } could get it for the |set in. The chief incidents of the week of June 30th. |play center around this period. Idle, “Expensive” seats |dilletante, ineffective men and women were available after | whimper plaintively as they seek hap- June 18th, piness. They do not find it, but! in t last act the handsome, athletic Cheap’ seats ‘wem |young hero marries the beautiful, en- $2.20. Expensive | thusiastic heroine. .The “old man” ca oh $4.40 | dies in the nick of time, scattering 2 |millions in his will, and the couple Scott Nearin: On the day that Tj 5; ‘ pat a S is Sisiten. “the. shea flies off in an airpl to live happy ever afterward. The drama presents a striking pic- jture of bourgeois deeadence in this tre “Strange Interlude” was being performed for the 101st time. The play begins at 5:30 p. m, and runs | i . | American center of bourgeois for, about 5 hours. pres The book makes good reading. Birney is aimless, alnfst pur- | O'Neill has a quintangle—an attrac-| Poseless. ; ; tive, highly strung, parasitic woman} 2. Sex provides the center of all who surrounds herself with a “fath-| interests, m3 ’ a “husband,” a “lover” and 4} upon whom she lives from Act | » Act 9. 4. Hence, the mothers and grand- mothers strive to perpetuate life by staying “young” or by acting “young”—still playing at the sex game after sex drive has lost its s significant that O'Neill ~ha sed this setting for his draz After some very obvious | - lorder, 3. As sex recedes, life recedes. | THE KUOMINTANG ENTERTAINS Be ine Spt By Fred Ellis The Kuomintang, with its imperialist admirers, has been responsible for the death of hundreds of thousands of workers. a After the Fall of Peking --What? mediately and that plebianism can be realized. The general mass of | ignorant people xeally have the ten- dency and desire to rebel.” | General Teng then cites several | historical examples, the fall of the! !Ching and Tsung dynasties,/ etc., to \prove that when such a condition ‘exists among the masses, “then the | \rebellion cannot be quelled.” He de-| (Continued from Last Issue) jclares that the Kuomintang is con- The Inner Political Developments. |Stantly becoming weaker, that the on- | The question arises, is the present |ly remaining barrier against revolu- | demoralization of the Kuomintang tion among the masses is the ancient simply a temporary crisis, resulting morality “which is moaning in its| from the expulsion of the workers and death-pangs.” The teavhings of the | peasants and their suppression, and Kuomintang are practically unknown will the bourgeoisie be able now to to the people, because “the Commu- stabilize its rule and gradually bring ,nist-bandits have created a false orderly developmént along the classic theory which has penetrated into the Tines of capitalism? |deeper mind.” He describes the weak- While it is impossible to answer.Ress of the Kuomintang in the fol- this question with finality, there is lowing words: much evidence to show that the an- “The Communist-bandits are re- swer must be no, that it is impossible} solved to set up a series of local or Chinese nationalism to develop on, powers surrounding Canton, and the model of the United States,! there is such-a possibility for4them. Japan,*or Turkey.’ Imperialism is too| I have fought in many places, but strong, and is pressed too hard by its| only in the city have I seen any inner necessity for expansion, for it! virile organization of the Kuomin- to leave China opportunity to work! tang, but never in the rural dis- | out over a period of years a national | tricts. Also I have never found any bourgeois regime. And in addition | people who can understand the gen- to the pressure from outside of im-| eral view of our party doctrines, perialism, China is also tormented in-| In other words, our party has some ternally with such a ‘tangle of social| connections with the masses in the and gconomie problems, that the bour-| ity, but it is separated entirely geoisie is already breaking down in| from the masses in the rural dis- its ‘first attempts to seize supreme, tricts. It is not difficult to win power in the land. It is unable to lay| military successes against the Com- , down the first foundations of civil) munist-bandits, but unless we can f strengthen our party organization To establish this point, we will) and educate our party members, we again turn for witnesses among those! cannot succeed in destroying the who have every interest to testify) Communists.” 4 exactly contrary to what they are,Comparing Kuomintang and Commu- a desperate This remarkable and timely ar- ticle on the significance of the fall of Peking, written in advance of the event by Earl R. Browder, is concluded in this issue of The DAILY WORKER.—Editor. eC Me By EARL BROWDER. forced to state by the hard facts of | nist Party. their difficult situation. Such testi-; _General Teng has mony, coming from the most hostile remedy to propose. sources, carries tenfold weight, ‘vather useless, he requests the gov= Finding his army | ernment to send “hundreds of able party members to engage in propa- ganda work,” men who are well- grounded in such scholarly works as “those books pointed out in the will of Sun Yat-sen,” and also “The Na- tional Revolution, by Mr. Chun Po- shu, the Theory of Chinese National Revolution by Mr. Wang Ching-min, the Philosophical Foundations of Sun- }yatsenism by Mr. Tai-chi tao, and the books of Mr. Sun Chin-ya, and also understand the mistakes and correct- nesses in these books.” This seems a pretty large order, even for the lat- ter-day Kuomintang which delights in grandiose paper-programs, One won- ders how many propagandists Gen- eral Teng found, who not only were familiar ‘with the books mentioned, but also “understood the mistakes and correctnesses” in the same fashion as the general. And the unfortunate general wrote his report from the field, just about the time the men to whom he addressed it had repudiated ‘the will of Dr, Sun as a “Communist forgery”! In pointing out what he wants the Kuomintang to do in the way of pro- paganda to support his armies, Gen- eral Teng finds it necessary to de- scribe with admiration how the Chin- ese Communists work, with unified propaganda and program, Going into this matter with much detail, he sums up: “The Communists educate their members even in the small things. When they are to be executed then they sing the International song and cry the slogan ‘Overthrow the Kuomintang,’ in order to make pro- paganda and education among the masses. All such kind of education and discipline are much better than the Kuomintang. Under sueh con- ditions, when we wish to destroy them, how difficult is such a task!” This report of General Teng -Yin- Consider, for example, the report of | General Ten Yin-wah, in charge of | the military expedition against tho+ peasant Soviets in the East River districts of Kwangtung- (Swabue, Haifeng, Lufeng), which was printed | in the Chinese newspaper Shunpao, | Shanghai, April 4, 1928. Reporting on the results of his operation against | the revolting peasants, General Teng declares to the Kwangtung Provincial zovernment that even successes in a (By @ Wor | Pennsylvania, according the Federal R | the capitalist system cannot stem the REPORT SHOWS WORKERS SWELL JOBLESS RANKS Correspondent) | PHILADELPHIA, Pa. (By mail)—Employment is steadily declining in eserve figures, which again prove that ever-growing evil that is slowly but ‘wah is so much more to the point ment seems superfluous. It is quite evident who are the bandits in Kwangtung; the bandits are precisely these militarists who use the banner of the Kuomintang, but who are not longer a party in the true sense, but simply a gang of military cutthroats under the domination of foreign im- perialism. j What the Imperialists Think About It. In a previous article I quoted at length the article by Sokolsky, in the North China Daily News, which judges. the Kuomintang position as very precarious. Many other such witnesses could be called to the same effect. For ‘example, we have the Peking & Tientsin Times of April 14, in which a long editorial is devoted to the trouble in Hankow between the Kuomintang militarists and the French consul. What is of immediate interest is the conclusion of this in- fluential organ of British imperial- ism. It says: é “However, the measures taken by the anti-Reds in order to intimidate the French authorities into surren- dering two women who were cer- tainly not being permitted to pur- sue any political activities while be- ing given refuge in the French Con- cession, constitute a precedent, as does the actual surrender itself, which may yet be used by the so- called Communists themselves when the new turn of the political wheel comes. "We should not be far wrong in saying, that the, measure of the wrath of the Wuhan authori- ties against the French consul-gen- eral is the measurg of their fear of the Communists, It is known that they have been in a panic ever since the recent troubles in Hunan. The time may come sooner than , many people expect when the mili- arists at present reigning in Wu- han will be running into the Con- ‘cessions for the preservation of their- skins, ahd the Communists | willbe demanding their surrender as traitors to the revolution.” Mr. H.-G, W. Woodhead, editor of the-Peking & Tientsin Times, gave an interview to the Japan Advertise: in Tokyo, the latter part of April. Regarding the advance of the north- ern. expedition, he was asked: “What will happen if the Nation- than anything I can write, that com- |_ Soe HANdOuTS | Sidney Hillman, boss of the Amal- |gamated Clothing Workers, in ad- idressing his colleagues at the Pacific |Coast Social Workers’ Conference, |declared that “our present industrial ‘system has been the greatest con- history.” For whom, whom? Sidney, * ee Virtue was again rewarded yester- ceived the munificent sum of eight cents for returning $500 in notes which he found in the streets. * * * Brule, Wisconsin, is witnessing the \fight of the ages. Three churches are battling for the honor of having Calvin Coolidge sleep in their pews. * * * Local fishermen are vying for the honor of catching the fish that will poor fish are fighting for the distine- tion of being caught. It isn’tvevery |fish who has a chance to get his face on the first page of the New York Times. * * * The quintessence of delicacy has just been shown by Admiral H. A. Wiley, commander-in-chief of the U. S. fleet, who has been irritated, it appears, by the description of navy men as “gobs.” .In an order forbid- ding its further use, Wiley charac- terized the appellation as “undignified and worthy.” Easy on the language and rough on the butchering, is the slogan of the refined admiral. * * * Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University, delivered his annual tirade against prohibition at the graduation of 4,300 campus boys and girls the other day. * * _Daily Worker Crisis “Oh mama who is the man in the picture looking through the bushes?”* “That is a DAILY WORKER jour- nalist, my child.” “Oh isn’t that too bad! Why doea he look so odd?” “He has to live on pretzels and copy paper.” “Well, why doesn’t he get a hair- cut on the chin?” “He’s pawned his lawn mower. He hasn't any money.” “Oh how long since he’s been paid?” “That was before the Fall of the Bastille.” “When will he get paid again?”.. “As soon as The DAILY WORKER drive goes over the $10,000 mark.” \ “Oh mama I'll get the penny out of the crack in the stairs to send it, Lend me your chewing gum!” * * * How a great industry devotes itself to social service is described by H. T. Sands, president of the National Elec- trict Light Association, in thes@ words: “These men and women engaged in our industry are deeply conscious of their duty as public servants and are conscientiously striving to discharg that duty. No industry has a greatel concern than ours in the integrity of our educational institutions.” * * . Philanthropist, Female tributor to wealth and prosperity in | for | day when a London junk peddler re- | |be attributed to Cal—and even the | alists fail?” military way are futile, and predicts | Surely causing the workers to starve >, nal and business men begin | pcor and end rich. Parasitic, neuro- | tie women live on their men. The | seene is far enough from: the setting | of The Hairy Ape or Desire Under | the Elms. All of the leading char-| acters in Strange Interlude, like al] of the leading characters in the Satur- day Evening Post, get rich. Act 9 is staged on the terrace of a million- aire’s estate on Long Island. But that does not explain why the | bourgeois world pays $4.40, wecks in | advance, to see the play. } The dialogue is clever, but not un- usually so, The plot Jerky and force, Styange Interlude suggests some of the ways in which people who have no-further excuse for living can strike a temporary bargain with pe i nd de: mericans are y bécause it lizes thei aneies with the possibility of th temporary bargains. That is where O'Neill has played his $4.40 followers false. If he were fair to them, he would have his avia- tor, at the end pf Act 9, writing across the sky: “First class funerals, the only hope!” a that the peasant revolution will over. whelm the present government. Fol lowing are a few items, translated from his report: “In my campaign to suppress the Communist-bandits in Haifeng and Lufeng by your order, I feel from | what I have seen all along the way, that there is a part of the Hailu- feng people who accept the Com- munists’ propaganda, believing in their vicious (alk of burning land- deeds and rent books, destroying landmarks, refusing to pay taxes, debts, and rents, etc. They think this is of great benefit » tham im- rt 0 wit like rats, There is no hope for the workers under capitalism, Strikes, lock-outs, wage cuts, speed-up are. their lot. ‘The workers must starve while the owners of the industries; the capital- ists, admit that their profits are in- creasing. Jn the report from four hundred and seventy-four factories there was a decline of seven percent from March to April, with another decline from February to March, which clearly shows that the worker is due for a ride into the sti ing, but proud ranks of the American unemployed. eS The writer, an American ex-service- man, marvels at.the lack of resistance of the mass of suffering workers. If they would only organize and over- throw the cause, the capitalist mak- ers of their misery, they. could, by es- tablishing a workeys’ and farmers’ government, enjoy the prosperity that their oppressors and ¢apitelist mas- ters enjoy now. f And for future gencrations they could establish a system of society where, by_owning the resources and the iuettles, the workers would re- ceive the full value of their toil. Ww. c. ae \ 4 “It will mean chaos,” was his brief reply. “What ifthey win?” “That will also be chaos.” - - vialists know quite well that by théir success in dominating the Kuomintang, they have also suc- ceeded in completely separating it from the masses of the people, and gendered it indistinguishable from the old northern militarist combinations, The Peking. & Tientsin. Times of April: 28, speaks of “the universal feeling that the ad coeuaiasm ne the Kuomintang has grown cold, if The unemployed, who are starving nm the streeets of Seattle, are greatly relieved to learn that the churches have begun a sys tie campaign of women’s clubs dF cooperating hy pass« ing resolutions so general that practi« tioned. It remained however, fo Betty Ross, philanthropic society girl of Seattle shown above, at top, to bring them immediate relief by driv. ing out and wine them pet prayer in their behalf and that tha cally no jobless man is left unmens